The Week That Was: 01/09/2012 - 01/15/2012

The second week of 2012 showed signs of potential upcoming irratation in weight management, my longest run in a few years, and the start of my overly complex UFC fantasy league.

Weight Management
I don't know that the stats tell the whole story this week, but here they are:

	Min	Max	Avg
01/02/2012 - 01/08/2012	173.2	177.6	174.7
01/09/2012 - 01/15/2012	172.0	176.0	173.9

So my minimum, maximum, and average weights were down for the week, but I ended the week with an "unexplained" two pound increase. I kept my caloric intake within budget (below even), so I don't know if my body has learned my running schedule and was storing up water in advance or if I'm just about to suffer a setback even though I'm "doing everything right". I've had these before, and they are quite demoralizing. I ended the week a surprising 938 calories under budget mostly from leftover calories from Sunday where I burned 995 of the week's 1320 calories and didn't use 746 of those. This is evidence towards why Lose It needs a rolling weekly calorie budget rather than resetting every Sunday. Part of my distrubing weigh in results may stem from the 1020 calories I used on beer. Adding those to the 938 calories I didn't use, my body got a lot less "food" than the week before and may be revolting.

Running
I just went on one run in the past week, and it was on Sunday rather than Saturday as my wife and I had company this weekend. I did the run a little later than normal in the day after eating a bit more than usual pre-run, and I didn't feel particular good during the run. Not surprising, my pace was quite a bit slower than normal with me average 11:24 per mile. As a "punishment" for the slow pace, I decided to run an additional 5 minutes for a total of 80 during which I completed seven miles. My 10K time was less impressive this time at 71:04 (roughly three minutes slower than typical).

Miscellaneous
As predicted last week, no leaf raking was necessary this week. Chores this week were focused on cleaning my bathroom and the "man cave" (work in progress) to prepare for the guests. Maybe after cleaning up take two on setting up my room will see me making better progress.

Three friends and I are trying out my UFC fantasy league rules and we made our picks for Saturday's UFC 142. I'm in the lead after the first event, but there is an event a week for the next three weeks, and it'll be interesting to see how things are going after that stretch.

I've started to think about trying to create a metric for "hit coolness" for my Where's George hits. This effort is likely to blow up in my face (I posted about it on the Where's George forum, but the conversion centered around it not being possible and that it doesn't make sense to try), but I think it'd be neat to be able to identify the "coolest" hit in my weekly review Where's George posts.